Apparatus for producing talking-motion-picture entertainments



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APPARMUSFOR PRODUCING TALKING MOTION PICTURE ENTERTAINMENTS.

APPLICATION FILED siPT.23..19|5. RENEWED uv 13. 1920.

1,354,272. Patented Sept. 28,1920.

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C. N. ANDREWS.

APPARATUQ FOR PRODUCING TALKING MOTION PICTURE ENTERTAINMENTS. APPLICATION FILED SEPT.234, 1-915. RENEWED MAY 13, 1920.

'1 354,272. PatentedSept. 28,1920

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0. N. ANDREWS. APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING TALKING MOTION PICTURE ENTERTAINMENTS.

LICATION FILEDSEPT-23 i915. RENEWED M APP AY 13, 1920. 1 354 272 Patentedsept. 28, 1920.

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CYRUS NEWTON ANDREWS, 0F YUCAIPA, CALIFORNIA.

j Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 2 1920.

Application filed September 23, 1915, Serial No. 52,306. Renewed May 13, 1920. Serial No. 381,211.

To all whov n it may concern:

Be it known. that I, CYRUS NEWTON A N- DREWS, a citizen of the United States, residing at 'Yucaipa, in the county of San Bernardino and State of California, have invented a new and useful Apparatus for Producing Talking-Motion-Picture Entertainments, of which the following is a specification.

I This invention includes features disclosed in my application for United States Letters- Patent on'audiopticon, filed in the United States Patent ()flicmNov. 18, 1914, Serial No. 872,853, and features of this invention are applicable in the production of records from sound and motion performances .or.

occurrences as well as in connection with the reproduction of sounds and pictures from such records. 7

I11 my said application for Letters Patent I have shown an audience or exhibition chamber having picture screens at its opposite ends and picture projecting and sound reproducing apparatus for the purpose of reproducing synchronously, pictures with the sound accompaniments in such a mannor that a reve'rsely-seated audience will receive corresponding visual and auditory impressions. In this application there will be shown only one of the projecting machines andone of the picture screens, in order to avoid unnecessary illustration and to avoid confusion of lines.

In preparing records for such an exhibition it is important that the sound records produced shall be of fine quality and it is difficult to effect such production from asingle stationarysound-receiver; and an object of this invention is to make provision whereby during the production of the synchronous sound and picture records a plulrality of sound record making machines may be distributed over the ground, and while concealed may be kept in practical synchronism with the picture record making machine; and whereby the sounds and motions thus recorded may be reproduced in like synchronism. In the motion picture art it is customary to produce parts of the action at diiferent and somewhat widelyseparated periods oftime and in reproducing the action in a picture the several parts of the picture are brought together by simply piecing together the motion picture rec- 0rd ribbon or film and passing the same through the projecting -machine. Owing.

restoring or locating the sound part with a perfect exactitude relative to the restoration of the motion part. of the reproduction. A very serious and difficult problem is here involved and an object of this invention is to solve such problem in a practical and effective manner. A further object isto accomplish this in the simplest and most direct manner possible so as to eliminate all liability of discordant reproduction of the sound and motion parts of any action.

I have solved this problem by making the picture record the primary unit of the synchronizihg mechanism and I regard my invention as still i more far-reaching and pioneer in its nature in that I have marked upon the picture record, definitely-located indices and have provideda dial having corresponding indices and have provided means actuated by the picture record ribbon and adapted to correspondingly actuate the dial, and I have provided the picture record ribbon not only with the indices marked thereon, but also with slots in determined relation with such indices and have combined with the ribbon so constructed, mechanism cooperating with the'slotted record ribbon and actuated thereby to actuate the dial in true relation to the indices on the ribbon, so that by inspecting the dial the operator is relieved from all necessity of inspecting the ribbon, and in this way I have eliminated much of the difiiculty of determining the position of the respective views of the recorded motion.

This is of special advantage in the operation of bringing together for coordination machine by enabling the operator to vi'sually determine the synchronism of the sound and picture records, thus eliminating all confusion arising from the noise of op- I crating the machine and from applause of the audience or froin street noises or other extraneous sounds.

An object of the'invention in a general way is to providemeans; whereby it is made practical to: record and reproduce satisfactorily as a unitary production both the auditory and the visual parts of any entertainment or occurrence.

It is understood that in accomplishing this general object it is necessary that the sound and motion reproductions may appeal 1 to the audience as being synchronous and an object of the {invention is to provide means whereby the effect of perfect synchronism between'the visual and auditory partsof 'the reproduction is secured.

.I'n attaining this object I have provided an apparatus including inter-indexed visual and auditoryrecords that have direct relation to each other in all parts relating to synchronism. 1

In carrying out this invention I have. adopted for indexing purposes certain basal 'unitsthat for convenience I term picture units and sound units respectively; the first relating to the picture or motion records and the second'relating tothexsound records.

Owing to the fact that in present practice motion pictures are produced by thereproduction on the screen of 16 pictures per second I have adopted 1/16 of a second as the period of each of said units; and consequently, each picture unit is represented by ord' cylinder, on its end, with what I term a segmental index of six numbers from 1 to o, inclusive, representing six frames or pictures on the film to be projected at one revolution of the cylinder, and this index is employed in combination with what I term 'a circumferentialindex, the same being conveniently applied on a scale alongside the cylinder as the same is being operated, said scale'being marked with 160 graduations inthe two indexes thus provided and certain dicated by tens; and by'the combination of indexes on the picture record device I have 'made it possible to locate on the cylinder, any portion .of the auditory or sound record .corresponding to the action represented by any single picture or frame of the accompanying motion picture film'.

This feature of the invention is also applicable to the disk machine as will be un'- derstood by those versed in the art.

I propose by the present invention to make provision whereby the operator can readily andexactly locate upon the visual" recorddevice and upon the auditory record device the parts thereof that should be simultaneously in action; and also to enable the operatorxat a station, to be able to note at any instant, the relative operative .positions of the visual and auditory records and to correct such relative positions so as to bring the sound and action reproductions into exact synchronism.

It is necessary in order to maintain exact relations between the picture record and the sound record that the recording and the reproducing needles shall be prevented from jumping across from one to another of the turns or helical members or limbs of therecord device and in this invention there are providedv means whereby such jumping is prevented. a

It is necessary that the stylus or needle of a sound record producing machine or of a sound reproducing machine be allowed to have free movementboth laterally and perpendicularly in order to make records and to reproduce the sounds satisfactorily, and

I have discovered that by providing in the.

record, grooves having floors of somewhat greater width than the point of the stylus or needle, it is possible to prevent any such jumping and yet at the same time allow perfect reproduction; and this invention includes the combination with certain indexes, of means to prevent the stylus or needle from shifting out of'true relation to the record, so that there will be no jumping of the needle from one limb or turn to another of the record, and certainty of the index will be vinsured.

For the sake of accuracy I prepare the sound record devices by providing them With grooves of suflicient depth to prevent the needle from jumping'from one limb or turn to another, and form said grooves with floors that are wider than the stylus point, and the traces of which, transversely of the groove in cylindrical records, are parallel to the axis of the record cylinder; and this necessarily requires a greaterlength of cylinder for a certain production than is required with the usual reoord'in which no provision is made to prevent the needle from jumping from limb to limb of the record. v

In practice, I find that,- as compared with the usual cylinder, the length of my deep groove cylinder necessary to reproduce for one minute will be practically as 6 to 1.

In disk record devices spiral record grooves are provided with flat floors somewhat wider than the point of the stylus. 4

As before stated the pictures are projected at the rate of 960 per minute, and the reproduction in each minute from the record of a talking machine using record cylinders, is

represented by 160 revolutions of such cylinder; and each revolution represents six p'ictures and the segmental index and circumferential index and the motion record indexes I have provided can together be em- .0 ployed to exactly locate-the position of the needle 'on. the sound record for any one of the 960 pictures occurring on the picture record for oneminutes operation.

Since the films or picture records are of .5 much greater length than that required for one mlnutes run, it becomes necessary to use a plurality of sound record devices and said record devices are indexed consecutively, as record sect1ons,"and corresponding 1nd1ces :0 "are placed upon the picture record device and the sound record devices as will more fully. appear from the subj oined detail description.

By this method of indexing it becomes possible to exactly locate the corresponding parts of the visual and auditory records, but it is essential that the operator shall be at all times informed of the relative.p0 sitions of the picture and its accompanying sound record; and for this purpose dials are provided and operatively connected withthe indexed record devices for the purpose of indicating to the operator the relative positions of the active parts of the two records,

and means are also provided wherebyadjustment of the soundrecord device can be effected to bring it into proper relation with the picture record device.

An object of this invention is to provide 40 index means whereby the correlation between the auditory and visual reproductions can be mechanically determined and brought under observation and to provide means for justifying one by the other, so that the synchronism of thetwo machines may be insured practically during the operation of both machines, irrespective of Whether either of the records is active: thereby to insure synchronous action of the correlated parts of the two records.

A further feature of the invention consists in the indexing means and the means by which the same is made available for the operator of the machines.

Other objects, advantages and features of invention-may appear from the s-ubjoined detail description.

It is not intended to limit the invention to specific construction and it may be carried out. in various ways, and it includes the apparatus, and the various parts and combinations of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In carrying out this invention I employ two moving records pertaining respectively to the visual and the auditory parts of an occurrence or production; the visual record 'being made up of a series of units and the auditory record being cyclicallyarranged; the period of each visual record unit corresponding to the period of a sound record unit forming an aliquot part of a cycle; and indices on said records for correspondingly indicating thereon the related units.

The invention may be understood by reference tothe accompanying drawings in' and sound machines shown are for projecting pictures and for reproducing the accompanying sounds, and therefore a screen is f shown between the picture machine and the sound machines which are assumed to be talking machines. It is understood, however, that the picture machine shown herein may be a camera and that the sound ma chines shown may be sound-recorders.

Fig. 2 is'a view diagrammatic in character showing a set of sound machines and their indicating dials together with means for electrically connecting the same. In the sound machine at the right, the parts are shown in solid lines in operating position,-

and are shown in dotted lines at the close of the record. A sound machine at the leftisshown in solid lines ready to begin operation. The electrodes are shown out of con--.

tact in solid lines. The dotted position of the electrodes at the left is the position occupied to start the sound machine into operation- Fig. 3 is an edge elevation of one of the dials shown in Fig.'2.

Fig.4 is a fragmental view of the picture record device or film and shows a picture at intervals therealong to contract the view.

Fig. 5 is a view partly diagrammatic, illustrating the arrangement of the picture record device and parts of the apparatus connected therewith. A fragment of the film is shown held by the film gate of the picture machine. A record-indicating dial and electro-magnetic means for operating 'the same are also indicated.

Fig. 6 is a fragmental sectional elevation looking toward the right in Fig. 5 from irregular line 0cw; electrodes being shown in circuit making position.

.Fig. 7 is a fragmental end elevation of a sound record device and parts cooperat frame marked X which is in the projecting I position in Fig. 5. Parts are broken away parts of the apparatus as applied in a disk form of talking machine. I

Fig. 11 .is a magnified sectional fragment of the auditory record with a fragment of a reproducing stylus in working position.

The motion recordor picture-machine 1 indicated in Fig. 1 ofthe drawings may be understood as a projecting machine adapted in the usual way for continual op-v eration in. one direction and containing'a visual or motion record device 2 shown more particularly in Figs. 4, 5, and 6 as a motion Lpicture film or ribbon.

The motion record machine 1 is connected by suitablemechanism 3 with a motor 4, and sound record machines 5, 6 are connect ed by suitable mechanism 7, 8, 9, with a motor 10. Themotors 4 and 10 are adapted and connected for synchronous operation and are shown aselectrical motors connected with each other through a circuit constituting means for normally operating said motors synchronously and provided with means adapted for relatively varying the action ofsaid motors-whereby the sound record devices and the sound records thereon can be j.us'tified relative to the action p with contact points a, a

record device 2 and action records or pictures thereon. f O

In said'Fig. 1 there is also shown a sound record machine 11 directly driven byv a motor' 12 and means are provided for operating said motor 12 in substantially thesame way as, and both with, and independently of, motor 10. a

It is understood that various means may beprovided' for securing and maintaining the .desired relative operation of theseveral motors of the system or apparatus-and that motors 10 and 12 and the sound record machines operated thereby may be increased 1n number as occasion may demand. T

In Fig. 1 a circuit for motors'4 and It) is shown connected with av power linev -13 through the double pole power switch 14" having three pairs of contact a, a, b, b, and-c, c. I v The'motor 4 is connected'independently pbints as at e, f fora and through lead 9 for a. It is connected with contact point 6 through leads g, h and with contact point 6 through f and .lead" 1'.

through the leads the leads 6, z, synchronizer y, lead is, switch m,lead a, motor 10, leads 0, 1;, switch 9,

Said motor 10 is also connected independently with the pair of switch contact points, 0, 0' through lead 8,

switch m, lead n, for point 0 and leads 0 and d'for point 0'. By this arrangement,

when the switch is thrown to the pair a, a the motor 4 runs alone; and when thrown to b, b the motors 4 and 10 are run synchronously; and when thrown to a, 0 motor lO'runs independently ofmotor. 4.

It is thus seen that when the switches 14,

m and g are in the positions shown .in F ig.

1 the motors 4 and 10 are in the same circuit with the synchronizer j and will run at uniform speed step by step with the alternating current from power had 13 and that when the double pole switch 14 is thrown to the right to contact with a, a the motor 4 will run independently of motor' 10 from which the'current will be cut off; and that when the power switch 14 is thrown into contact with c ando' the m0- tor 10 will run independently and th power will be cut ofi. from motor 4. I

By this arrangement the two motors will run synchronously when the power switch is in contact with b, b and when it is desired to make motor 10 lag behind motor,4 it is only necessary to throw the switch temporarily into contact with a, a; and when it is desired to speed up motor 10 relative to the motor 4 the switch 14 will be temporarily throwninto contact with 0, a. One pole of motor 12.may be connected with contact point I; through the leadsr, v,

switch w andlead a2; and the other pole of 12 may be connected with contact point 6' through the leads u, 0 motor 10, lead 11.

' switch m, lead la, synchronizer 7', leads z and e, motor 4, and leads 9 and It so that when the power switchis in' contact with b, b andthe switch m connects leads'lc and u, the. motors 4, and 12 will run synchr0- -nously, the switch w being closed and switch 9 being opened.

When the gap m between u and k and vi the switch at w are'open as in Fig. lthe motor 12 will not .be energized. By reference to F ig.-2' itwill be seen that the motion record device or picture film 2 is arranged to run between and normally separate oppositely arranged electrodes 15, 16

that are'connected in battery circuit 17 and are adapted to energize the magnets 18 or an electro-magnetic latch 19 constructed'in any suitable way to latch the brake 20 of a sound record device 21 orthelike. In said Fig. 2, two sound record machines are shown having sound record devices 21, 21' and the latch '19 is shown holding the brake 20 of the record device 21 in record-hold ing position, the sound record device 21' and the stylus arm 22' being thus held inactive while the sound record device 21 and stylus arm 22 are in operation.

It is thus seen that when a record device, as the cylinder 21, is placed on the mandrel 23 of one of the sound record machines 5 or 6, as the case may be and the electrodes l5, 16 for the magnet 18 are allowed to contact, the latch 19 is released; thus releasing the brake so that the record device 21 will be released to rotate responsive to the rotating mandrel 23 driven by the motor 10.

The motion record device or picture ribbon 2 holds the electrodes apart except at intervals where starting slots 24 or 24' are provided in the picture ribbon, andtherefore the operation of the auditory or sound record device 21 is subject to control by the motion or visual record device 2.

It is thus seen that in case the brake for the sound record device 21 is'latched by any means, as by an attendant stationed at the sound record machine, it will be unlatched whenever the slot 24' comes intoposition to allow the electrodes 15, 16to contact with each other.

Each of the record devices is appropriately indexed and the indicia therefor are indefinite relation to each other and I shall now describe the inter-indexes of the sound and motion records.

Taking as an example a cylindrical rec- 1 0rd device as shown in Figs. 7 8 and 9, said devices are constructed with a record-receiving body 25 and with durable end portions 26"ugon either or both of which are applied inc icia 27 of the sectional indexes and the indicia 28 of the segmental indexes. Said durable end portions 26 serve to maintain the sound record devices in working condition. Y

Owing to the prevalent construction of motion picture and sound record machines above set forth, the segmental 1ndexes of each section or cylinder .21 or the like are made to consist of six equal divisions indicated by the indicia 28 consisting of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4,5, 6. Said numbers may be placed on the periphery and'on the end 7 of the cap or binding 26 of the sound record device. The circumferential. index for each sound record device may be applied to the sound record device by means of a scale plate 29 extending longitudinally of the sound record device and provided with w graduations 30 corresponding to the turns by tens while the graduations 3O correspond in actual number and in position to the turns 31 of the record 34 formed in the rec-- 0rd grooves 33. By this arrangement of indexesit is possible by inspection thereof to determine the exact position of the stylus 35 .on the record at anytime and said Stylus 130 is connected with a pointer 36 that at all times indicates upon the scale 29 the record groove in which the stylus is positioned.-

In order that the operator at the picture machine l'may at all times know where the stylus is located relative to the record a bus bar 37 is provided with contact points 38 arranged in the path of a movable contact 39 carried by the stylus arm 22 in appropriate relation with the record grooves 33, so that as the stylus arm 22 moves along be stepped forward by successive impulses through the battery circuit as the contact 39 makes and breaks contact with the contacts 38. In the drawing shown there are sixteen graduations to which indicia are applied and there are on the dial a corresponding number of graduations 46 to which the indicia 45 are applied, and there are sixteen teeth 47 on the ratchet wheel 48 operated by the pawl 49 of a magnetically-operated arm 50 that is pivoted at 51 and oscillated at each ener izing impulse of the battery circuit 40. dial 52 (see Figs. 1 and 5) with graduations 53 and two sets of indicia 54, 55 has hands 56, 57 proportionally-operated by an electro-magnetic actuating device 42' corresponding to that just described and connected to battery circuit 40' for actuation by the picture machine 1; the hands operating in proportional relation through a suitable train t geared 16 to 1; the longer hand 56 indicating on the C11- cumferential indicia 54 the convolution or turn at which the stylus is acting on the sound record section or cylinder and which is indicated by the shorter hand 57 on the indicia 55 of the section index.

The train 6 is analogous to the train which relatively moves the hour and minute hand, and said train 2? moves the short hand 57 and long hand 56 over'the dial 52 at the I ratio to each other of 1 to 16. Said train,

from the nature of the view, is hidden by the dial 52 and is, therefore, shown only in dotted lines and dot-and-dash lines. When duration. 1

, The picture record ribbon 2 is provided with the usual frames 58 for successive pictures and said frames are indexed in sets of six to correspond with the six unit segments of the sound record device, and'the frames of each set are consecutively marked with the indicia 59 of a segmental index to indicate the order of the frames' in the set to correspond to the indicia 28 of the segfinental 'indexon the sound record ,device.

Said ribbon 2 is also marked with the indicia 60 of a circumferential index indicating the number of circumferential turns on thesound record device, each of which turns correspond to a set of six pictures; and said ribbon is also marked with the indicia 61 of a sectional index indicatingthe order in its I machines and the next or second slot on the i set, of the sound record device in use in the performance; The indicia of the sectional index and of the circumferential index are arranged on the ribbon at the first picture of each set of six pictures; and therefore together serve as indicia for the first of such set and they are arranged in a predetermined manner, so thatthe operator at a glance will know their meaning, and for convenience-in this respect each indice 61 of a sectional index is placed above an indice 60 of the circumferential index.

The ribbon 2 is provided at intervals along its length with operating slots 24, arranged at the first frame or picture-of a section of a picture ribbon corresponding to the run of a section of the section record device, that is to say, a section corresponding to 160 turns of'the talking machine cylinder, and consequently covering the tures.

ribbon are in staggered relation to each other, being preferably arrangedin alternation on opposite sides of the picture frames,

one of said slots 24 serving'to allow contact' with electrodes for'one of the sound record opposite side of said frames allowing contact of the electrodes for the other'sound record machine; and-in practical operation both of the sound record machines will be supplied during a part'of theutimeuwith one in operationand stylus of one machine reaches the end of its record, the. electro-magnetic "latchfl of the space of 960 pic- The slots or perforations through the second machine may be sprung by contact through the operating slot 24 provided for that purpose, and the record device of such second machine will immediately be released device upon which the record has just been and started into action whereupon the record completed maybe removed by anysuitable means, as by an attendant, and a fresh record device supplied in lieu thereof and latched against turning and thus held in waiting preparatory to be released when the next operating slot reaches the electrodes therefor.

Slots 24' similar to the staggered slots 24 I are appropriately spaced. along the ribbon at the side'of the picture frames 58 and arranged in a line adjacent the slots 24 upon that side of the ribbon, said slots 24 operating the electrodes 15, 16 that are connected to actuate the hands 56, 57, over dial 52 passes through the picture machine.

The hands 57 and 56 therefore indicate the particularparts of both the sound record and the picture record which are at any time being reproduced. The inspector therefore has the dial 44 by which to locate the sound-record and is also enabled by dial 52 and the hands thereon to locate the picture record, so. that in case of cut-outs he will be'able tov adjust the sound record to the picture record that has not been cut out.

'85 through circuit 40' as the-picture, record Additional slots 24 may be suitably positioned along the opposite side of the frames 58 from the slots 24 to appropriately operate the electrodes 15, 16 that are connected through circuit 64 to actuate different appliances, notshown, such asthose for bells, guns or the like.

In Fig. 10 the disk 21" is ascale 29 having indices 11 and corresponding 'to the scale 29 in Fig. 9, and thereby the turns 31 may be located in the cylinder machine. 7

The inter-indexing is applied in the same manner as in case of the cylindrical record; the .disk having-its grooves 31 registered with the groove indices a, and also having segmental indices 6" and a unit in ex 0'".

The screen 62 shown in front of the .picture machine in Fig. 1 and the filmgate 63 shown in-Figs. 5 and 6 may be of sired construction.

It is seen by the foregoing that. I have pro- I duced in combination a picture machine 1, sound record machines 5, 6, and means com prising theelectrodes 15, 16, 15', 16" battery circuit .17, 17 the br'a'lges 20, 20 the electromagnetic latches 18, 19 and 18', 191, pertainprovided with,

as the turns 31 any depicture machine produces alternate action of said sound recordmachines; the picture; machine ribbon having ,130

electrodes pertaining to the respective ma-.

the staggered perforations 24 therein arranged in lines for alternately receiving the chines; said perforations 24, 24 being spaced along the ribbon at appropriate distances apart for starting each sound record machine'into action when the record of the companion sound record machlne has reached v the close of its record.

By providing the visual record ribbon 2 with index characters 59, and 61 and by providing the index for the auditory record with index characters corresponding with the index characters of the Visual record and providing the means including the motors 4 and 10, and the electrical circuit with synchronizer j and double pole switch 14 arranged in said circuit to drive the ribbon and the auditory record at proportional speeds, the required synchronism may be effected.

Since the picture views or frames 58 are numbered consecutively and the index for the auditory record is numbered'to correspontl to the numbers of-the picture views it is an easy matter to locate each view with respect to the auditory record pertaining thereto, and vice versa. By means of index dials 44 and 52 and the double pole switch 14 the justification of the synchronism is readily effected by inspecting the dials and appropriately throwing the switch to relatively speed up or slow down the visual and auditory record machines.

By the means shown to simultaneously drive the auditory record device and the visual record ribbon so as to exhibit any number of picture views equal'to the product of the number of grooved indices and the number of segmental indices on the index of the grooved record it is practicable for the oper-' ator to locate on the sound record the part thereof at which the action of the picture record may have been cut out in case of injury to the ribbon, or when for any other reason it may be desiredto eliminate a por- 3 tion of the record ribbon.

It is to be noted that the visual record ribbon 2 has its picture views 58 divided into sub-groups numberedwith the numbers 59 to correspond with the segmental index of the sound records, and into groups numbered with the numbers 60, and corresponding with the numbers indicating the number of turns on the sound record index; and are divided into super-groups indicated by the characters 61 corresponding with-the section indexes for the sound record ,sections, thus to enable the inspector to readily locate throughout a visual record. ribbon of any length the exact location ofany picture thereon corresponding to a segment of-a turn of the sound record device irrespective of the number of sound record devices required to accompany said visual record ribbon. By this means, when in practice it is desired to eliminate any portion of a sound record to correspond with any elimination or substitution that may be made in the visual record, the location of the required excision of the sound record part can be accurately determined by inspection of the indexes and exact parts of the record ribbon may be supplied by number.

.By numbering the picture views consecutively in sub-groups as by the numbers 59 and having some of said picture views at definitely spaced intervals numbered consecutively in. groups as by the numbers 60, and providing in combination therewith an auditory record having its grooves consecu tively numbered as by the numbers 32 to correspond with the numbers of said groups at 60, and having its circumferential segmental portions numbered as at 28 to correspond with the numbers of said sub-groups at 59 on the picture record, the synchronism or lack thereof and the remedy therefor can be readily determined by inspection of the records.

The sound record machines 5, 6 and 11 are relatively movable so that they may be stationed in various relative positions and for the purpose of making the sound record machines 5 and 6 movable relative toeach other the shafts 7 and 8 may be flexible after well 95. known forms of construction.

In Fig. 6 the sprocket wheel 64 that drives the picture record ribbon 2 is provided witha segmental index and segment indices 65 and care is taken,'when the ribbon and record 100 devices are applied that the indicia 65 ofthe sprocket wheel 64 are in appropriate relation to the indicia 59 on the record ribbon and the indicia 28 onthe record device so that the operator by inspection thereof and 105 of the dials can determine the agreement of the segments of the sound record with the frames of the picture record.

It is particularly noted that the circuit including the two motors 4 and '10 practically 110 constitutes a unitary operating means to effect synchronism between the dials and the auditory and visual records, and when the apparatus is properly adjusted and is in operation, inspection of either dial 44 or 52 will 115 enable the operator to determine the location on the sound record device, of that portion of the sound record which i'sthat moment active.

bon provided with a series of picture views numbered consecutively; an auditory record; an index for said auditory record numbered to correspond to the numbers of the numbered to correspond with the numbers on the scale plate and auditory record, said talking machine and picture machine being timed to simultaneously reproduce the por- 5. picture. views; dials operably connected to tions of the auditory record and ribbon that 70 the auditor record and to the picture film have like numbers. v and adapte to indicatethe active portions 8. In combination, a visual record ribbon of said auditory record and picture film; having its picture views consecutively numand means to effect synchronism between the bered in sub-groups and having some of said 10 ribbon and the auditory record. picture views at definitely-spaced intervals 75 3. In combination, an auditory record, innumbered consecutively ina group, an audidicia for the grooves of said auditory record, tory record having its grooves consecutively segmentah'indicia arranged circumferennumbered to correspond with the numbers tially of said auditory record, and a visual of said groups and having its diflerent cirrecord ribbon indexed to correspond to said cumferential segmental portions numbered 80 groove-indicia and segmental-indicia. to correspond with the numbers-of said sub- 4., Ificombination, an auditory grooved groups, and means to synchronously operate record, an index registering with each turn the record ribbon and auditory record.

of the record groove, indicia placed circum- 9. In combination, a visual record ribferentially around the auditory record, a bon having its picture views consecutively 85 visual record ribbon provided with a series numbered in sub-groups and having some of picture views, and means to simultaof said picture views at definitely spaced inneously drive the auditory record and the tervals numbered consecutively in groups ribbon'so as to exhibit a number of picture and having some of said picture.'views at '2 views equal to the product of the number of other longer spaced intervals numbered con- 90 groove'indices and the number of segmentalsecutively in super-groups, auditory record indicia. units numbered consecutively to correspond 5. In combination, atalking machine prowith numbers of the super-groups, each of vided with a graduated scale plate longitudisaid auditory records having its grooves connally along the mandrel, and a cylindrical secutively numbered to correspond with the 95 auditory record for the mandrel graduated consecutive numbers of said groups andhavcircumferentially,'said graduated scale plate ing its different circumferential segmental and circumferential graduations together in.- portions numbered'to correspond with the Y ng' finite portions of the record, and consecutive numbers of said sub-groups, and

a picture machine provided with a gradumeans to synchronously operate the record 100 ated film ribbon, the graduations of which ribbon and auditory record. Y

are in correspondence with the graduations 10. In combination a motion picture recof the scale plate, 4 0rd ribbon having picture views at spaced V 6; In combination, a talking machine prointervals numbered consecutively, and hav- 40 'vided with a graduated scale plate longitudiing slots adjacent the numbers, said slots, 1'05 mally along the mandrel, .said scale plate being. in staggered relation from edge to having the graduations numbered, a cyli-n edge of the ribbon; auditory record units dricalauditory record for the mandrel corresponding consecutively to the picture graduated circumferentially and provided views,.s'aid auditory record units being numwith numb rs r th graduations, said gr d- .bered to correspond with. the consecutive. 110 uated scale plate andcircumferential gradnumbers relating to said views and slots; uations together indicating definite portions pairs of electrodes on opposite sides of the of the record, a" picture machine, a visual ribbon, the electrodes of each pair confrontrecord' ribbon for thepicture machine proing each other and adapted to contact with 'vided with numbers corresponding to the one another through slots when the slots 11 numbers on the scale plate *and auditory are brought into registration with said elecrecord, and means to synchronously operate trodes; latch means electrically connected the talking machine and picture machine to to the pairs of electrodes respectively and simultaneously reproduce the portions of the operatable for latching the auditory record auditory record and visual record having at intervals determined by the slots; dial like numbers. means; and means whereby said dial means "7. In combination, a talking machine proare connected to, and are thereby made to vided-with a graduated scale plate extendoperate synchronouslywith thepicture rec-' v ingalong the mandrel of the machine, a 0rd ribbon and auditory record whenthe ccylindrical auditory record for the man rel latch means are released. I provided with circumferential graduations, 1 1. In combination with a picture maa f 7 said graduations being numbered, a picture chine, asound record machine in which the machine operating in synchronism with the sound record device is provided with a.

talking machine, a visual record ribbonfor groove to accommodate the .point of the sty- 65 the picture machine having picture views 111s of said sound record machine ;""said sound record machine also being provided with a graduated scale extending longitudinally along the mandrel of the sound record machine and graduated to indicate the turns of the record groove; said sound record device also being provided with circumferential graduations; said picture machine being provided with a motion record device having an index; said graduated scale and circumferential graduations together indicating definite portions of the record device of said picture machine and said picture machine being provided with a raduated record device, the graduations 0 which are in correspondence with the graduations for the sound record device.

12. The combination with sound record devices containing sections of a record, said devices being marked withindices of a sectional index; of a scale marked with 160 'graduations to indicate the turns of the record on said sound record devices respectively; a picture record device having more than 960 pictures thereon and having indicia infcorrespondence with the indicia of the sound record indexes; there being 160 turns of each sound record device for each 960 pictures of the motion record device, and said motion record device being provided with a sectional index for each 960 pictures to correspond with the sectional index pertaining to the sound record forsaid pictures; said motion record device also having indicia for indicating groups of six pictures each and corresponding to the indicia pertaining to said 160 graduations.

. 13. The combination with a sound record machine having a sound record device and a sound record having turns on said device and indexes for the sound record device to indicate its order and to indicate the turns of the record on said record device; of a dial having thereon indicia corresponding to the two indexes pertaining to the record on the sound record device, and means to operate said record devices synchronously.

14:. A talking motion picture apparatus comprising a sound record machine; sectional sound records therefor; indexes indieating the sections of the sound record and the turns of the record on said record device sections; a dial having indicia corre spending to the indicia of said sound record indexes respectively; hands on the dial for indicating the indicia of the indexes on the dial; and means for operating the hands in proportional relation to indicate on the dial the position of the stylus of the sound record machine relative to the parts of the sound record.

cles and segments of the sound reproducing record, and means to operate said record device; said operating means being provided with segmental indicating indicia.

17. In a combined motion and sound reproducing apparatus; a sound reproducing record device having indicia thereon to indicate cycles and segments of the sound reproducing record; a motion record device having indicia to indicate cycles and segments of the sound reproducing record and also having operating slots at the first frame or picture pertaining to a section of a sound reproducing record for starting said sound reproducing record device into operation; and means to operate such motion and sound reproducing devices synchronously.

18. In an apparatus of the character set forth the combination with a picture record having indicia, a sound record having indicia, means 'to simultaneously operate the picture record and the sound record, a dial having indicia thereon corresponding to the indicia of both said records, and means operated by the record-operating means to indicate on the dial the reproducing position of both records.

In testimon whereof I have hereuntoset my hand at ucaipa, California, this 14th day of September, 1915.

CYRUS NEWTON ANDREWS.

In presence of D. E. DOLEN, V. L. DILLOW. 

